The Federation of Mimes Guild is a gargantuan, cultured nation, notable for its parental licensing program, strictly enforced bedtime, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 24.977 billion Mimes Guildians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 96.5%.

The large but stagnant Mimes Guildian economy, worth 380 trillion Octopus cards a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 15,219 Octopus cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Polling place volunteers are suddenly opening a huge number of offshore bank accounts, returning tourists and businessmen are detained without trial if they belong to the "wrong" religion, tax assessment offices double as polling stations, and 90% of active duty MGAF personnel have been laid off and replaced by robot kill-drones. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mimes Guild's national animal is the opossum, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.